موسیقار

Borrowed from Arabic مُوسِيقَار (mūsīqār, “musician”), from Classical Syriac ܡܘܣܝܩܪܐ (mūsīqārā, “musician”), from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikós, “musician”).

موسیقار • (musiqâr)

1. panpipes
2. a fictitious bird that is said to sing beautifully
   • c. 1911, Mohammad Hossein Âğuli Torki-ye Shirâzi, دیوان ترکی شیرازی‎^[1]:

     من بیچاره از غمش شب و روز
     در فغانم چو مرغ موسیقار

     man bičâre az ġam-aš šab o ruz
     dar faġân-am ču morġ-e musiqâr

     Day and night, I am helpless out of love-grief for him/her;
     In my crying, I am like the musiqâr bird.

3. (obsolete) musician

Borrowed from Classical Persian موسیقار (mūsīqār), from Arabic مُوسِيقَار (mūsīqār, “musician”), from Classical Syriac ܡܘܣܝܩܪܐ (mūsīqārā, “musician”), from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikós, “musician”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /muː.siː.qɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: مُو‧سی‧قار

مُوسِیقار • (mūsīqār) m (Hindi spelling मूसीक़ार)

1. musician (by extension, a singer)
2. phoenix bird
3. panpipes an instrument/pipe used by shepherd's or devises
4. (figurative) an instrument (ie. to describe a human as an instrument – not necessarily dehumanizing)

• “موسیقار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “موسیقار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “موسيقار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “موسيقار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1091
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “موسيقار”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1134
• John Shakespear (1834) “موسیقار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC